Monday, April 23, 2012

Just one tree

While walking between offices the other day, I noticed this index card that read "Best/largest source of new product ideas," which was placed immediately in front of a cedar tree.

Although there are much stranger occurrences than index cards littering the sidewalks of a college campus, this was the only index card in sight and placed so centrally, almost carefully in relation to the tree that it could have been a marker or possible explanation to a display, not just intellectual rubbish.

I suppose at a time before index cards, tree were the best and largest source of new product ideas. I certainly can't quickly or easily name all of the products that came from trees. It certainly seemed a little existential (meta?), standing in front of a tree, subtly exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide, an index card-product of a tree- between us, while I was walking from job to job: one that is full of scientists inventing things to act like trees and other living things and the other job that focuses on ruling out the use of trees: a paperless/online campus in a place where we bulldoze trees to make room for new buildings on campus, then plant more trees.

What an incredibly complicated role it has in our world.

Mostly I take delight in the happenstance, the coincidental story that left a new, if inconsequential, window of perspective: that there are stories all around, which are maybe waiting to be told but can easily be missed.

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